Dr Manuel Ramos-Martinez

Manuel Ramos-Martinez’s work engages with the interrelation between the political and the image/sound pair. His recent research has explored political tensions that animate aural/visual practices including film, video and television. His current research concerns the adventures of disobedient spectatorships (queer cinephilias, autonomous film clubs, resistant film pedagogies).  

Ramos-Martinez also works as a film programmer, curator and as an editor for the cinema journal La Furia Umana.

Academic qualifications

• 2014 PhD in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
• 2006 MA in Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London
• 2003 BA in Art History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Teaching

Ramos-Martinez is currently teaching the following modules: Modernities (BA Year 1), Emancipating Images and Sounds (BA Year 2) and Electronic Resistance (BA Year 2).

He has previously taught in the MA in Contemporary Art Theory (Dissonant Images, Auditions) and Introduction to Art History (BA Year 1). He was a visiting lecturer in the BA and MA Fine Arts at the City and Guilds Art School, London (2011-2015). 

Areas of supervision

Ramos-Martinez welcomes research proposals investigating historical or current practices and theories of the image/sound engaged in emancipatory politics from the fields of cinema, video, radio, television, the Internet. 

He has examined PhD thesis at Universidad Carlos III (2016), Madrid and Goldsmiths, London (2018).

Featured work

Publications

• 'An Accidental Document of the Beginnings of the Civil War in Madrid: Notes on Carne de Fieras', La Furia Umana, N.30, January 2017
• ‘Nombrar, Resistir, de los títulos en el cine de Straub y Huillet', in Manuel Asin and Chema Gonzalez (eds.), Jean-Marie Straub y Danièle Huillet: Hacer la revolucion es volver a colocar en su sitio cosas muy antiguas pero olvidadas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2016, pp.127-143
• ‘The Cinema of No’, La Furia Umana (edited volume, N.28, 2016)
• ‘People Fever, The Popular Passions of Peter Watkins' La Commune (Paris 1871)’, Screen, special edition on television studies edited by Karen Lury, Vol. 57, No. 2, Summer 2016, pp.197-217
• ‘Actors Simply Explode, To Act in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, 92, 2016, pp.93-117  
• ‘Names in Dispute, What Titles Can Do in the Films of Straub and Huillet’, La Furia Umana, 26, December 2015
• ‘The Oxidation of the Documentary, The Politics of Rust in Wang Bing’s Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks’, Third Text – Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture , 2015, pp.1-13

Film programming

• Flower Children in the Blinding Light, The 1960s Films of Anthony Stern, (co-curated with William Fowler), Bfi Essentials, National Film Theatre, London, 16 September 2014
• 5 Communes, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2012
• Factory Trouble, GOldsmiths, University of London, 2011

Awards, grants and media appearances

• 2010 Ph.D. Fee Waiver Bursary, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths
• 2007-2009 Doctoral Grant from the Mutua Madrid Foundation
• 2002-2003 Erasmus Grant

Conference Participation and Invited Talks

• Introduction of a special screening of Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach (Straub-Huillet, 1968), National Film Theatre, London, 26 April 2017
• Chair of the panel discussion dedicated to self-organisation with Janna Graham, Manuela Zechner and Paolo Plotegher, Permissions talks series, Goldsmiths, London, spring 2016
• ‘Peter Nestler and the Ambitions of an International Cinema, guest speaker, The Films of Peter Nestler, Goethe Institut/Tate Modern, London, November 16 2012
• Chair of the panel discussion dedicated to the film Land and Bread by Luis Buñuel, with Dr. Jo Evans and Dr. Sarah Wright, Going Back to Reality: Picasso and the Canvas in Motion, Instituto Cervantes, London, May 4 2012
• 'The Names-in-Dispute of Contemporary Cinema', The Many: History, Theory and Politics, New University of Lisbon, 2012
• ‘Factory Trouble’, panel organizer and speaker, Athens Biennial - Monodrome, Athens, December 2 2011
• ‘Still Here, Here Again, Godard, Farocki and the cinema’s centenary’, The Archive: Memory, Cinema, Video and the Image of the Present, XVIII International Film Studies Conference, University of Udine, 2011
• ‘The Oxidation of the Documentary’, Documentary Now!, University of Westminster, London, 2011
• ‘From Instituted Evidence to Singular Irreducibilities’, Visible Evidence XVII, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2010
• ‘Derrida’s War of the Name’, INC Continental Philosophy Research Group, Goldsmiths, London, March 9 2010
• ‘A Disintegrating Document, on Tie Xi Qu, West of the Rails’, Relocating Media Conference, Network of European Cinema Studies (NECS), University of Lund, Sweden, 2009
• ‘Image And Emancipation, Between The Political And The Cinematic In The Work Of Jacques Rancière’, Philosophy and Film Conference, University of the West England, Bristol, 2009
• ‘Image And Emancipation, Between The Political And The Cinematic In The Work Of Jacques Rancière’, Philosophy and Film Conference, University of the West England, Bristol, 2008